For those in machine learning and programming languages, what would be the major hurdles in achieving voice programming (or at least scripting). A way to interact with a computer so that one could ask things like:
"Computer, search google's rss news for arduino articles. Sort them by lenght, in the top 100 results search for the world circuit. Copy paste the paragraphs containing those results into a text file. Send it to Jane".
Is it really that far? Wouldn't such a program enable some kind of programming for non-coders (of course assuming one would need to learn some rules, and have a clear idea of what one was looking for).
The problem is it's already hard to be very precise about what you're saying when talking to a computer just with text, so we'd need functions specific for each of those voice requests, more reliable voice recognition, and also some AI intelligence to understand the English you're using, so even that simple request would be difficult unless we pre-scripted the functionality for that whole phrase.
It's not impossible, the technology just isn't there yet.
"Computer, search google's rss news for arduino articles. Sort them by lenght, in the top 100 results search for the world circuit. Copy paste the paragraphs containing those results into a text file. Send it to Jane".
Is it really that far? Wouldn't such a program enable some kind of programming for non-coders (of course assuming one would need to learn some rules, and have a clear idea of what one was looking for).